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TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) – Two days earlier than a high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump performed golf and tweeted Saturday from one in all his namesake resorts, blaming his predecessor for Russian election meddling and lashing out on the free press from overseas soil.

Aides had mentioned Trump would spend the weekend making ready to fulfill Putin on Monday in Helsinki, however the tweets confirmed different subjects had been on his thoughts.

“I’ve arrived in Scotland and shall be at Trump Turnberry for 2 days of conferences, calls and hopefully, some golf – my main type of train!” he tweeted early Saturday, referencing his seaside golf resort. “The climate is gorgeous, and this place is unimaginable! Tomorrow I’m going to Helsinki for a Monday assembly with Vladimir Putin.”

Trump was later seen taking part in the Turnberry hyperlinks, a number of holes of that are seen from a close-by seashore, the place dozens of individuals staged a protest picnic Saturday. He was videotaped waving at protesters as they shouted “No Trump, No KKK, No Racist USA!” earlier than resuming his recreation. He was additionally seen posing for photographs.

A line of police, some on horseback, stood between the course and protesters. Snipers perched atop a close-by tower overlooking the huge property.

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Israel exchanges intense fireplace with Hamas militants in Gaza

JERUSALEM (AP) – The Israeli navy carried out its largest airstrike marketing campaign in Gaza because the 2014 struggle Saturday as Hamas militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel all through the day, threatening to set off an all-out struggle after weeks of rising tensions alongside the risky border.

Two Palestinian youngsters had been killed in an airstrike in Gaza Metropolis, whereas three Israelis had been wounded from a rocket that landed on a residential residence.

Israel mentioned it was centered on hitting militant targets and was warning Gaza civilians to maintain their distance from sure websites. However even earlier than the report of casualties the extreme tit-for-tat airstrikes and rocket barrages nonetheless marked a big flare-up after a protracted interval of a usually low-level, simmering battle.

“The Israeli military delivered its most painful strike in opposition to Hamas because the 2014 struggle and we’ll improve the power of our assaults as a lot as vital,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned.

Late Saturday, Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza introduced that they’d agreed to a cease-fire brokered by Egypt, however sirens warning of incoming rockets nonetheless wailed in southern Israel early Sunday and it was unclear if the cease-fire was holding.

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US decide criticizes plan to reunify households cut up at border

SAN DIEGO (AP) – A federal decide, responding to a plan to reunify kids separated on the border, mentioned he was having second ideas about his perception that the Trump administration was appearing in good religion to conform along with his orders.

The Justice Division on Friday filed a plan to reunify greater than 2,500 kids age 5 and older by a court-imposed deadline of July 26 utilizing “truncated” procedures to confirm parentage and carry out background checks, which exclude DNA testing and different steps it took to reunify kids underneath 5.

The administration mentioned the abbreviated vetting places kids at important security danger however is required to fulfill the deadline.

Chris Meekins, deputy assistant Well being and Human Companies secretary for preparedness and response, filed a declaration that he’s totally dedicated to assembly the deadline. Nonetheless, he doesn’t consider “the inserting of youngsters into such conditions is according to the mission of HHS or my core values.”

U.S. District Choose Dana Sabraw took umbrage at Meekins’ assertion, disputing the official’s interpretation of his orders and saying that secure reunification might and can happen by July 26.

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Trump’s remarks about altering European tradition draw ire

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s lament this week that immigration is “altering the tradition” of Europe echoed rising anti-immigrant emotions on either side of the Atlantic, the place Europe and the US are going by way of a demographic transformation that makes among the white majority uncomfortable.

“The best way he put this argument about altering our tradition … about Europe changing into much less good than it’s, in different phrases, these individuals are right here and they’re making the tradition crappy and making the place lesser, that is straight out of the white supremacist/white nationalist playbook,” mentioned Heidi Beirich, director of the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle’s Intelligence Venture.

Trump, in an interview with the British newspaper The Solar, blamed immigration for a altering tradition in Europe: “I feel permitting tens of millions and tens of millions of individuals to return into Europe may be very, very unhappy. I feel you might be dropping your tradition. Go searching. You undergo sure areas that did not exist ten or 15 years in the past.”

Trump, the grandson of a German immigrant and the son of a Scottish immigrant to the US, repeated his rivalry at a information convention with British Prime Minister Theresa Might:

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US official: Russia utilizing social media to divide People

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The U.S. homeland safety secretary mentioned on Saturday there aren’t any indicators that Russia is focusing on this yr’s midterm elections with the identical “scale or scope” it focused the 2016 presidential election.

Division of Homeland Safety Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen spoke at a conference of state secretaries of state, an occasion that is normally a low-key affair highlighting voter registration, balloting units and election safety points that do not get a lot public consideration. However coming amid contemporary allegations into Russia’s makes an attempt to sway the 2016 election, the periods on election safety have the next stage of urgency and curiosity.

Nielsen mentioned her company will assist state and native election officers put together their programs for cyberattacks from Russia or elsewhere. She mentioned U.S. intelligence officers are seeing “persistent Russian efforts utilizing social media, sympathetic spokespeople and different fronts to sow discord and divisiveness amongst the American folks, although not essentially centered on particular politicians or political campaigns.”

The convention of high state election officers she addressed was sandwiched between Friday’s indictments of 12 Russian navy intelligence officers alleged to have hacked into Democratic occasion and marketing campaign accounts and Monday’s long-awaited assembly between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Trump has by no means condemned Russia over meddling within the 2016 election regardless of the findings of all high U.S. intelligence businesses, and the Kremlin has insisted it did not meddle within the U.S. election. Prior to now, Trump has reiterated Putin’s denials, however this week he mentioned he would convey up the difficulty after they meet on Monday in Finland.

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Did S. Korea military plot coup to maintain ousted chief in energy?

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – A gaggle of military generals rolling tanks and troops into Seoul to grab energy. Paratroopers firing at giant crowds calling for democracy. Tanks and armored autos stationed at universities to intimidate pupil protesters.

Such scenes of navy intervention in South Korea have been nonexistent because the nation achieved democracy within the late 1980s. However revelations this previous week of a doc exhibiting the navy drafted plans to mobilize troops to suppress protests final yr have struck a nerve amongst folks in one in all Asia’s most vibrant and wealthiest democracies. Some allege the plans even included a state of affairs for a coup.

The recollections of brutal, military-backed dictatorships that imprisoned, tortured and executed dissidents stay vivid to many South Koreans. However most consultants say the precise possibilities for an additional coup in South Korea are extraordinarily low. A take a look at the explosive revelations and why a coup is almost inconceivable to tug off at this time:

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Protests erupt after man fatally shot by Chicago police

CHICAGO (AP) – An indignant crowd gathered Saturday night after a Chicago police officer fatally shot a person on town’s South Facet, and a few protesters scuffled with police.

Chicago Police Division spokesman Anthony Guglielmi mentioned the taking pictures occurred when officers on foot within the South Shore neighborhood tried to query a person “exhibiting traits of an armed particular person.”

Larry Merritt, a hearth division spokesman, mentioned the person was taken to Jackson Park Hospital, the place he was pronounced useless.

No cops had been injured, Guglielmi mentioned. A weapon was recovered on the scene, he mentioned, however didn’t say whether or not the person was armed when he was shot.

A scuffle later broke out on the scene of the taking pictures between chanting protesters and cops holding batons. Video confirmed a number of cops and protesters shoving one another. The Chicago Solar-Instances mentioned a number of protesters had been taken away by police.

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Haiti’s prime minister resigns amid gas value hike fallout

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haitian Prime Minister Jack Man Lafontant resigned Saturday amid requires him to step down over his dealing with of a failed plan to boost gas costs that set off a wave of lethal protests.

Lafontant instructed Haiti’s Chamber of Deputies that he despatched President Jovenel Moise his resignation letter. Moise confirmed through Twitter that he had accepted Lafontant’s resignation together with these of different Cupboard members.

The prime minister’s abrupt resignation got here forward of a vote on a movement of censure Lafontant, a primary step towards asking that Moise identify a brand new prime minister to kind a Cupboard to deal with the disaster. The prime minister is the second highest official in Haiti after the president.

Lafontant was to reply questions in regards to the July 6-Eight riots that adopted the federal government’s try to boost gas costs by as much as 51 % as a part of an settlement with the Worldwide Financial Fund. A minimum of seven folks had been killed and dozens of companies had been looted in the course of the unrest.

As a substitute, Lafontant (LA-FAH-TON) used the chance to announce his resignation, whereas in numerous elements of Haiti’s small protests had been held demanding the pinnacle of state step down.

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Firefighter killed in wildfire close to Yosemite Nationwide Park

LOS ANGELES (AP) – A second-generation California firefighter who was utilizing a bulldozer to forestall a wildfire from spreading was killed Saturday close to Yosemite Nationwide Park, state fireplace officers mentioned.

The blaze broke out Friday night time in Mariposa County, close to the west finish of Yosemite Nationwide Park and Sierra Nationwide Forest. Hearth officers mentioned it had burned about 150 acres (61 hectares).

Varney labored by way of the night time and was driving the bulldozer to chop a firebreak to maintain the hearth from extending into a close-by neighborhood, based on fireplace chief Nancy Koerperich.

Investigators had been working to find out additional circumstances surrounding Varney’s demise, however they consider he was working his approach out of the hearth space when he was killed, Koerperich mentioned.

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Expenses undermine Assange denials about hacked e-mail origins

WASHINGTON (AP) – At the start of 2017, one in all Julian Assange’s greatest media boosters traveled to the WikiLeaks founder’s refuge contained in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London and requested him the place he acquired the leaks that shook up the U.S. presidential election solely months earlier.

“Are you able to say to the American folks, unequivocally, that you simply didn’t get this details about the DNC, John Podesta’s emails, are you able to inform the American folks 1,000 % you didn’t get it from Russia or anyone related to Russia?”

“Sure,” Assange mentioned. “We will say – now we have mentioned repeatedly – during the last two months that our supply shouldn’t be the Russian authorities and it’s not a state occasion.”

The Justice Division’s indictment Friday of 12 Russian navy intelligence officers undermines these denials. And if the prison prices are proved, it could present that WikiLeaks (known as “Group 1” within the indictment) obtained the fabric from Guccifer 2.0, a persona instantly managed by Russia’s Fundamental Intelligence Directorate of the Common Employees, also referred to as GRU, and even gave the Russian hackers recommendation on the way to disseminate it.